Mexican-American War
The idea that Americans are destined to expand westward
What is manifest destiny
What is South Carolina
The president that got elected in 1860, making the southern states secede from the nation
Lincoln's plan before he got assassinated for reconstruction and admission of southern states
What is the 10% plan
An American white supremacist hate group with a history of violence and intimidation, primarily targeting Black Americans, Jews, and Catholics
Who is the KKK
The land given to Americans after the Mexican-American war
What is the mexican cession
The plan during Lincoln's limited warfare in earlier stages of the war that constituted the Naval blockade of the south, wrapping around the southern portion of the south
What is the Anaconda plan/Scott's Great Snake
The president during the annexation of Texas
Who was John Tyler
The amendment that prohibits the government from denying any citizen the right to vote based on "race, color, or previous condition of servitude"
What is the 15th Amendment
A series of discriminatory laws enacted in the Southern United States after the Civil War, during the Reconstruction era
What are the Black Codes
The champion of popular sovereignty, bringing the idea into Kansas/Nebraska territory
Who was Stephen Doughlas
A bloody battle that inspired the implementation of the Emancipation Proclamation
What is Antietam
The president that vetoed many of Congress' bills, impeached, and called Reconstruction "Restoration"
Who was Andrew Johnson
The system that replaced slavery, prevalent in the South after the Civil War in which landowners allowed tenants to farm on their land in exchange for crops
What is sharecropping/tenant farming
The name for white Northerners who moved to the South to take advantage of economic opportunities
Who are the carpetbaggers
The river that Mexico initially believed was the border between America and Mexico before the war
What is the Nueces River
The place where Robert E Lee surrenders on April 9, 1865
What is the Appomattox Court House
The president that ended reconstruction with the compromise of 1877
Who was Rutherford B. Hayes
Championed radical reconstruction for congress, the two leaders of radical republicans
Who are Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner
This organization helped with Freedmen and adjusting to new life, also helping poor whites
What was the Freedmen Bureau
An agreement between the United States and Mexico in which the United States agreed to pay Mexico $10 million for a 29,670 square mile portion of Mexico that later became part of Arizona and New Mexico
What is the Gadsden Purchase
The court case that limited Government powers in war, opposing the suspension of Habeas Corpus
What is Ex Parte Milligan
The president that replaced Garfield after he got assassinated, championed civil service reform, and oversaw significant expansion of the US Navy.
Who was Chester A Arthur
A plan for Reconstruction proposed by Radical Republicans in 1864
What is the Wade-Davis Bill
This person was most well known for voicing anti-lynching during this period
Who is Ida B Wells